Oops, too late, Ebola has already been around for 38 years.
Posted on 08/02/2014 12:16:55 PM PDT by chessplayer
An Ebola doctor coming home to be treated at the Ebola isolation unit in an American hospital, is not only the right thing to do as far as treating American doctors who get sick, but it is the best possible situation for us to learn and get hands on experience, rather than our first case being discovered in some small town immigrant flop house in Tucson, or somewhere.
Why you think this doctor is the key to our destruction, the fatal crack in the perfect wall of never seeing the disease in America?
Research can be done in Africa. NO reason to bring the contagion to the heart of America.
Emory is in it for the money, period
You ‘hope he’s right’
WHY TAKE A CHANCE?
I expect us to start burning witches or something as we sound like a bunch of villagers shaking spears at the white medicine.
If I were an American GI in Africa, I would worry about these calls to close the gates to ill Americans returning home for medical treatment.
So you really do believe that if we can stop this Ebola doctor from coming home for treatment, then we are saved, and everything will be fine sine this is the only guy we need to worry about.
Judge Jeanine just had Dr. Bob Arnot (”Dr. Danger”) on talking about Ebola. He has been in Ebola wards .... two docs he was with ended up dead from what seemed like very minor contact. He said the danger to the US is “not zero” although he felt like CDC, Emory were going to take every precaution. He did NOT think these two needed to come to the US for treatment. He felt that Franklin Graham (& he’s worked with him for 20 years) takes the best care of his relief workers of all the aid organizations and wanted them to have the very best care. The US government aided and facilitated Graham/Samaritan’s Purse in bringing Dr. Brantley here. At least twice, Arnot strongly stated they did not need to come here to get treatment.
As for Brantley, it does look like he walked out of the ambulance & it was reported that way on Fox - J.Jeanine showed the video. If he DID walk out, I’m thinking he’s going to survive this - by all accounts of Ebola I’ve seen, as long as he’s had it, he should pretty much be “down & out” by now. I hope he survives - he’s a courageous man - risked his life for his fellow human beings. He has a wife and little kids and it would be a shame if he dies.
Here is an excellent story I found on a link on Drudge about aid workers dying and it describes all the protective gear they wear, but also goes into how mistakes are made & why so many are dying despite the gear & procedures for dealing with soiled bedding, etc.
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-health-ebola-healthworkers-idUSKBN0G14FR20140801
Move along people, nothing to see here...
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So you really do believe that if we can stop this Ebola doctor from coming home for treatment, then we are saved, :
Show me where I said that. Do not put words in my mouth.
I said it is a risk an is irresponsible. And am not comforted by the statements that approved procedures will not fail...again.
Too late now - if it had been my decision he wouldn’t have come here precisely because we don’t know how he got infected in spite of wearing the gear.
I feel for him - he is obviously a really good man but there appears to be a risk. Maybe they all know something we don’t know and it will be ok. We’re about to find out.
Some of you don’t seem to realize that another ill Christian American missionary will soon be following him, Nancy Writebol.
Perhaps you guys can round up a mob to block her at the airport.
Accepting an American missionary doctor home for medical treatment, is the responsible thing to do.
Your panic and hysteria is not responsible.
Protecting the public health is the responsible thing to do.
This guy VOLUNTEERED to go to an Ebola infected area. 6 million Atlanta residents most certainly did NOT volunteer to bring the Ebola virus to their community.
Just looking at the “protection” worn by the ambulance crew shows just how much a joke their training and procedures are.
Evidently, we're not the only ones.
They are protecting public health and treating a fellow American doctor, the next American you want to ban from being treated here might be a GI rather than a Christian missionary, we have many in Africa.
Your link didn’t express panic and hysteria about this doctor being treated by doctors here at Emory’s Ebola unit.
Why is it that you think this doctor is the one who is going to destroy us with a massive outbreak?
From the comment section of that Ebola story:
This disease is worse than Nuclear War!
Nice try at a redirect. GIs have top notch med facilities the world over, they never come here first, and would certainly not be at a civilian hospital in major city center.
A disease with no cure, a 60 to 90 percent mortality rate, and unknown transmission mechanism is not what a sane person brings to a major population center.
Even the WHO says this is out of control, and thy are the experts in the field.
You should be concerned with the status of your soul.
Geez Mr. excitable, it isn’t a redirect at all.
I expect any American, especially our troops working with indigenous people, to be transferred to the U.S. in case of life threatening illness or disease, I also want our Christian missionaries and embassy personal to not be banned entrance back home if they are sick.
This also applies outside of Africa, if a sailor comes up sick, or a CIA agent comes up sick anywhere in the world, I want him allowed back into the U.S. for quarantine and medical care.
Oops, too late, Ebola has already been around for 38 years.
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